Baby Camille

Baby Camille Myers was born this afternoon. 8 pounds 8 ounces. I'll post a pic when I get one.

Jeanine's Having a Baby

Jeanine is having her baby tomorrow morning. She's going to the hospital in order to be induced at 5:30am. Hopefully baby Camille will be born tomorrow afternoon. Let's pray that it's a speedy delivery. Let's pray that her other kids survive me watching them.

Return of the Aquanuts?

This weekend I went with my friends the Ruiz's and their family out to the Eastern Shore. Not the ocean, but the Eastern Shore. (Yes, Michele I am allowed to call it that. Cheryl gave me permission.) It was a spur of the moment decision on my part to go. Earlier in the week Tony and Cheryl were telling me they were going to go out to visit some friends and family. The husband's of whom were in a band with Tony called the Aquanoutas (sp?) I will now call them the Aquanuts. They asked me if I wanted to tag along. I thought to myself, "sure I've never been to the Eastern shore, should be fun." Little did I know what I was getting myself into.
As the week went on I would get little bits of information about the trip. As when Cheryl told me to make sure I brought a tent. A TENT!!! I am not a camper. But I got my tent and went with it. People would ask me where was going and I had to tell them I have no idea.

Why am I going?

I have no idea.

What are you doing there?

I have no idea.

Do you know anything?

No I don't

Well, once I got to the lovely house in the flat country of the Eastern Shore it was very nice. The friends were nice, the weather was nice, the ticks were..not so nice. I then found out that there was going to be a party with about 40 people there. Wow, what did I do to myself. The Aquanut were going to get back together to play a few pieces. Dan, the guitar player, even ran electricity out to the shed in the backyard in order to hook up his rather nice sound system.

Saturday night as all of us girls drank a few bottles of wine, the guys practiced outside in the shed until about 1:00am.
For those of you who know how crazy I am about sleep, I did sleep outside, on the ground, in a tent. I was so tired that I slept quite well, after the band stopped playing.
The next morning everyone pitched in for the family picnic. Close to 50 people came to enjoy the great food and company. It was a good time. Halfway through I did retreat to the back room and watched Bob the Builder with 3 year-old Noah. Ahh that was relaxing.


The band did play two sets and they even let me sing with them. I didn't know the words but neither did they. They were actually quite good. You could tell that they did it for the love of playing, they didn't care how good or bad they sounded. They just wanted to have fun.


A little later they did play the CowBell song, (yes the one from Saturday night live) They had no cowbell, but after a quick time out and dash to the kitchen, one of the teens, Poppy was able to get a pot and a spoon to bang on. Then the jamming began.

It was a crazy, yet relaxing weekend. It's always an interesting time when I leave my comfort zone and go visit people I don't know and attend a party with people I don't know. It was kind of God to give me the grace to make it through without have a mental breakdown over not being in control. I was able to just coast through and actually enjoy not being in control of my schedule, my sleeping arrangements and my food. It could have ended up with me in tears and with a massive headache, but all came out well in the end. Thank you Lord.

Ecclesiastes

As I am continuing in my One-year Bible Reading Plan, I find myself in Ecclesiastes. I have always enjoyed this book, I always come away with new knowledge of God and his Character. I'm not saying that I don't learn anythig from other sections of scriptures, but for some reason book speaks clearly to me. This is what I read today.

Ecclesiastes 3:14-15:

"I percieved that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away." (ESV)

What struck me about this section of scripture today is that it is proclaiming God's sovereign plan. God does all things, nothing is new, He's got it all in control. And whatever He does is for His glory. "God has done it, so that people fear before him" God isn't out there doing things in order to make us happy, he is doing things in order to bring himself glory. "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight." Proverbs 9:10.

These are good truths to have in place. It's good for me because I have such an inward, me focus. How can things benefit me, what's the best for me. These scriptures remind me that it's not all about me. It's about a sovereign God who sent His Son to die on a cross for my sins all to bring glory to His name.

The other cool things is that at the end of this passage it states that "God seeks what has been driven away." God's not going to let us run to far away from Him before He come chasing after us. That's a blessing.

Living Room is Done

My living room is done and put back together. Here are the pics of my new room with it's spiffy Red Wall.

Mike and Elizabeth's Wedding

Here's a link to some pics from Mike and Elizabeth's wedding.

Red Wall

I'm getting my house painted for the first time today. I have spent that last seven years in various rental apartments. Some of the apartments did give the option to paint my room but I never took it upon myself to do it. The reason is that I'm afraid of colors on walls. I don't want to put a color on the wall only to hate it in the end.
But today is the day and not only am I putting color on the wall, I decided to go RED!!! So here's a picture of my Red Wall. (Apparently Red Wall is also the name of a good book according to Aaron who's helping with the painting.)
I also included a few pictures of the work in progress, later tonight I'll show the finished product.